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Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So I had another question from someone that wanted to know is honey a better

substitute for sugar. Let's talk about that. Well, regular table sugar, refined sugar,

is a 50-50 split between fructose and glucose.

Honey is 60% fructose and 40% glucose so it has more fructose.

And the rationale that people use that honey is better than sugar for a diabetic.

It's not going to affect your blood triggers is because it's high in fructose.

And fructose on the glycemic index is 19,

so it's very, very low.

So you're thinking, wow, it must be okay, but here's the problem.

That glucose goes directly to your liver and your liver is the organ that has to deal with it.

All the other cells in the body can metabolize glucose,

but the liver has to metabolize

fructose and this is the problem. So fructose is very damaging on the liver and it

does create insulin resistance and it does cause a fatty liver and so no

honey is not a good substitute for sugar. The benefits of honey have to do with the

antioxidants and some of the vitamins and the phytonutrients that can help people with allergies.

And also it can decrease the complications from diabetes because vitamins protect the cells, but it's not an alternative substitute

for sugar and I don't recommend it.

And as a side note, because our environment is becoming more polluted, especially with insecticides, okay, like glyphosate, as in GMOs, okay, you're seeing a decrease in honey bees.

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